Favorite Web Browsers

[classical_hero]

I don't why I did not check this much earlier, but i found the source of my memory leak. It was an Australian Dictionary that i was using. I don't know why I did not try and remove all my add ons first to see if any of them were causing problems.

 

[WhiteEagle22]

I voted for Firefox, Chrome, and Opera as my favorites, cause I've had the best results with them.

 

[El Koeno]

I voted for Firefox, Chrome, and Opera as my favorites, cause I've had the best results with them.

I.e: you don't like IE?

 

[stormbind]

Chrome deserves an honourable mention for netbooks with reduced screen height. The screen real-estate issues are resolved only in Chrome because it uses the window title area for tabs and doesn't waste space for other features. This means that more of the website is visible.

In terms of website visibility, Chrome on a netbook can out-perform MSIE on a desktop!

On every other count, Opera rocks.

 

[PeteAtoms]

The only thing I don't like about Chrome is the way bookmarks are handled. I like FF's bookmark bar and drop down menu at the top of the window. Maybe I just haven't given it a proper chance, but I'm used to FF and the layout.

 

[Zelig]

Chrome deserves an honourable mention for netbooks with reduced screen height. The screen real-estate issues are resolved only in Chrome because it uses the window title area for tabs and doesn't waste space for other features. This means that more of the website is visible.

Opera does this by default as well...

 

[stormbind]

Erm? Opera on my computer it doesn't do that. Are you sure we are talking about the same thing?

In the above example, my point regards the use of screen space. Chrome uses less for its own GUI and more the webpage. I especially like how the tabs are raised high and do not require an additional bar. This is especially useful on netbooks with very limited screen-height.

Opera introduced very nice tab-previews. Does nobody like Camino?

 

[Zelig]

Yeah, Opera does that...

 

[stormbind]

Oh, so they did read my feedback

Maybe I remembered wrong. I haven't used my PC in a while since it needs a clean-out

 

[Mise]

IE8 does that too, if you turn off the "favourites" bar. Not sure about IE but in FF you can move your bookmarks so that they're next to the File ... Help menu. That's a nice space saving thing that still retains functionality.

 

[Zelig]

IE8 does that too, if you turn off the "favourites" bar. Not sure about IE but in FF you can move your bookmarks so that they're next to the File ... Help menu. That's a nice space saving thing that still retains functionality.

How do you do that in IE? I've got the favourities bar disabled, but can't figure out any way to get the tab bar above the address bar.

 

[Mise]

How do you do that in IE? I've got the favourities bar disabled, but can't figure out any way to get the tab bar above the address bar.

EDIT: Wait, I misunderstood, you can't do the exact same thing in IE, i.e. get the tab bar above the address bar, but you can have 3 rows: one for the window title, one for the address bar, and one for the tab bar.

 

[Jarlaxe Baenre]

Safari and Other: Camino.

 

[Maniacal]

I've been using Chrome a lot more, I discovered it is very fast and light, perfect for loading up if I have to alt tab out of a game (though now that steam dropped using IE its ingame web browser works awesomely!) to check something or only need to check one thing quickly, or if someone else is playing an FPS game and I don't want to give them a lag spike.

 

[Zelig]

I've been using Chrome a lot more, I discovered it is very fast and light, perfect for loading up if I have to alt tab out of a game (though now that steam dropped using IE its ingame web browser works awesomely!) to check something or only need to check one thing quickly, or if someone else is playing an FPS game and I don't want to give them a lag spike.

Every browser is going to be pretty much identical in bandwidth usage...

And who ever closes their web browser anyway?

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Every browser is going to be pretty much identical in bandwidth usage...

And who ever closes their web browser anyway?

Amen! If your computer doesnt have enough resources to run a browser and other programs with it, you may want to think about joining the 21st century

 

[Quintillus]

Yeah, Opera does that...

It's even more slick and uses even less screen real estate if you are using XP (both than less Opera on Vista/7 and Chrome). Screenshot attacked at the bottom of the page.

Opera doesn't do that with Windows Classic (which I use most of the time), but I'm don't know if Google Chrome does, either. I don't particularly care, as I still like the traditional title bar, and Windows Classic saves vertical real estate in most applications.

Every browser is going to be pretty much identical in bandwidth usage...

And who ever closes their web browser anyway?

I occasionally close it if it gets up to five dozens tabs or so. I could do a "Close all but active", but I figure by that point a fresh start couldn't be a bad thing.

On the mobile front, though, bandwidth could be an issue. If I recall, that's one of Opera Mobile's (Mini as well perhaps? Not well versed in the difference, not accessing the Web away from a PC) touted advantages - with Opera Turbo, bandwidth usage is lower.

 

[Zelig]

It's even more slick and uses even less screen real estate if you are using XP (both than less Opera on Vista/7 and Chrome). Screenshot attacked at the bottom of the page.

Opera doesn't do that with Windows Classic (which I use most of the time), but I'm don't know if Google Chrome does, either. I don't particularly care, as I still like the traditional title bar, and Windows Classic saves vertical real estate in most applications.

I haven't used XP in several years, but I suspect the difference between our screenshots have to do with Opera being maximized or not, rather than the OS. If you maximize Opera in Win7, it looks the same as in your screenshot.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

Chrome deserves an honourable mention for netbooks with reduced screen height. The screen real-estate issues are resolved only in Chrome because it uses the window title area for tabs and doesn't waste space for other features. This means that more of the website is visible.

In terms of website visibility, Chrome on a netbook can out-perform MSIE on a desktop!

On every other count, Opera rocks.

This is only true for default settings on Windows. Once you adjust the settings it's not.

One problem is they couldn't place the tabs all the way into the title bar. They really just take up the empty space below the title area while the second half of the tab adds height to the UI. The other is Chome's UI components are actually bulkier than some of the other browsers. So you can configure Firefox to take up less screen real estate (not default settings).

On OSX Chrome is probably the worst with screen real estate. The tabs just sit below the title bar and Safari has much smaller UI components since Google just ported their Windows UI over to OSX.

I don't remember how things measured out on Linux. Firefox was so slow for me on Ubuntu that I didn't even bother running anything besides Chromium builds.

Other than that Chrome really is the best. Firefox has really disappointed me since Chrome came out.

 

[azzaman333]

Opera wins for general browsing, no contest.

Although, I do use Chrome for facebook, and will use IE if for some reason a site won't work in Opera or Chrome.